Category: exemption

Family Finances: Year-End Gifts Reap Benefits for Donors and Recipients

By Joy Taylor From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Financial planners and tax professionals often advise clients to include gifting in their year-end tax planning strategies. There are three main reasons to do this. First, your gifts can help family members and friends. Second, because gifts aren’t subject to income tax, the recipient isn’t taxed on the…


Connecticut Families Challenge ‘Arbitrary’ Religious Exemption Ban for School Vaccines

A lawsuit filed in Connecticut Superior Court is challenging the state’s removal of the religious exemption from mandatory school vaccinations, which families say is not only absurd but also unconstitutional. The lawsuit involves two families, with each of them having one child currently in school under previously granted vaccine exemptions and a younger child unable…


US Military Intentionally Purging People of Faith Via COVID Shot: Liberty Counsel

Military service demands sacrifice. Members must accept time away from family, discomfort during training and active duty, and they must have a willingness to give their all; lay down their life. But since 2021, military members who refused to take the COVID-19 shot for religious reasons have been told that they must also sacrifice either…


Feds Quietly Create Database of People of Faith; Convention of States Gains Momentum

If you object to getting a COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons, you can apply for an exemption. But if you work with the federal government, you’ve also been added to a database. Mat Staver, chairman of the Liberty Counsel, says there’s no good reason to keep lists. And, in America Q&A we ask if any…


Unvaccinated Federal Employees Not Granted Exemptions to Be Put on Unpaid Leave Today

OTTAWA—Employees in the core federal public sector who have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will be put on unpaid leave today, unless they were already granted an accommodation. The policy could potentially leave more than one thousand workers without pay and unable to access employment insurance benefits. As of Nov. 3, the vast majority…


‘Gotcha’ Questions on Pennsylvania Religious Exemption Forms: Attorney

Attorney Jeff Schott’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing since President Joe Biden announced a mandate requiring vaccination or termination for health care workers and those who work for any company with more than 100 employees. In some cases, noncompliance with the order for a 100 percent vaccinated workforce will result in the loss of federal funds….


Nearly 11 Percent of LA City Employees Plan To Seek Exemption From Vaccine Mandate

LOS ANGELES—Nearly 11 percent of Los Angeles’ 57,476 city employees have stated their intent to seek a religious or medical exemption from the city’s mandate that employees get vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data released by the city today. About half of those come from the Los Angeles Police Department, which has 2,651 employees planning…


Quarantine Exemption for Foreign Business Leaders Bringing Economic Boost to UK

Overseas business leaders will no longer need to quarantine when arriving in England if their trip is likely to be of significant economic benefit to the UK, the government has announced. Company executives wishing to travel to England to make a “financial investment in a UK-based business” or for “establishing a new business within the…